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Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan was born on April
7th, 1954 in Victoria Peak, From a young
age he practiced kung fu with his father.
At the age of seven, his father left to take a job in Australia and he
was left behind in Hong Kong to study at the China Drama Academy where he
remained for ten years and studied singing, acting, martial arts and
acrobatics. This school was meant to
prepare the children for work in the Chinese Opera, therefore academics were not
focused on. While in school, he became a
member of, "The Seven Little Fortunes" performing troupe along with
other martial artists, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and Biao Yuen who later also pursued
careers in the film industry.
He was cast in his first film while still in school in the
Cantonese movie, "Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and Little Wong Tin
Bear". When he was seventeen and
finished school, the Chinese Opera was no longer popular and he was left to
find work to support himself. Due to his
lack of education he found work as a stuntman in films in Hong Kong and later
moved to be with his family in Australia.
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